In Hoorn we can suddenly buy food dyes at many different places and of course I couldn't resist buying a few bottles of Americolor. Well, of course these had to be tried out. Not to cheer up cakes or the fashinable (and fun!) cupcakes, but to dye wool. Fortunately there was some sheeps' wool lying about, so that is coloured now. Dyed in the oven in my favorite way.Now all this wool has to be spun, but that's getting on quite well, too.

My knitting goes on as well. The Leaving cardi I showed last time now has a back and two gront parts and the first sleeve is on the way.

But last summer I decided to frog a cardi I knit with handspun wool (kidmohair, plied with a longwool. A bag full of it was waiting for me at the back door one day, so I have no idea where it came from and what it is, but although prepping the wool for spinning was very time consuming, the wool became lovely and soft) I was sorry, but the cardi didn't please me at all. The neck seemed too wide and it kept dropping off my shoulder all the time. Frogging was necessary, because it seemed a shame to leave it unused after all the work I spent on it. I started making a cardi by Jean Moss: the